Jesus, Eoin suggested that you were a female writer.  Good god. lol  

I liked it, though.  I really did.  There's something about your writing, and I noticed it when we tried to team up that one time.  Your characters have a fun way of interacting with each other, exchanging words.  You got a lot of crap for the ending (and the short itself) but I loved it.  It's kind of crazy you don't have more stuff posted.

Hey guys, for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere who are a bit challenged with time diff's can anyone let me how long we have left until deadline??

11:59 EST 12 July would be what in Oz? OWC's typical deadline is usually a Saturday our time but I think this one commenced earlier and so deadline might be tomorrow night our time.

Stevie? Anyone?
Ta, in advance.

Hey Steve, thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. And I appreciate your comment about character interactions, which is always something I've sort of struggled to get right.

Eoin's comment made me laugh. I'm still trying to figure out why he would think that, but I'm still stumped.

Anyway, thanks for the read.

Quoted from LC 11:59 EST 12 July would be what in Oz? OWC's typical deadline is usually a Saturday our time but I think this one commenced earlier and so deadline might be tomorrow night our time.

1:59 PM on Saturday it seems, at least that's the time I get here in the ACT.

I think it's an 18 hour difference, but I'm not sure about that.

Thanks for the response nawazm!  

Sounds like the usual time then. Hopefully will make it.

And, I'll go with that unless someone else pipes up otherwise.

Yeah, that sounds about right, Mo. Roughly 2 pm for us in the Satdy arve.

Be good if you can submit something Lib! I'm halfway through mine. Will finish hand writing it tomorrow (Friday) and get it onto the computer tomorrow night.

I have done a shit load of research for this, lol. Just spent an hour trying to find a certain type of animal that lived in Washington state. It's all good fun though

Thanks Stevie... and Mo.

I'll be crossing my fingers I can get it done. Still need to inject a bit more local colour, not to mention plot and Rratedness and blood and gore... & suspense would be nice.  

I'm a 'maybe' at this stage. But, looking forward to seeing what people have come up with.

Scripts are due 11:59 PM, tomorrow night, EST.

As of right now, we have just under 40 hours to submit.

I'm actually struggling with mine,  The locale I decided to use has caused me an additional page or 2 and I'm now at a point where I'm not sure I can fit everything in to 12 pages.

But, work is slow...incredibly slow, so I should have today and tomorrow to get back on track.  Whatever happens, I will submit something.

Keep at it, everyone!  Any support needed, let me know.

Entered.

My wife's  opinion - meh.   Thanks!

Anyway at least it's an entry.

A couple of thoughts;

1] As jeff has requested before, if they could all be released at a at similar time i think it provides for a much more balanced set of reviews. I appreciate this can be some work, but released over several days has an effect.

2] If there are more than 20 scripts, very possible, perhaps we could be clear there is a two week window to review then vote. Sometimes it has drifted and lost focus, which is a shame.

3] yes it's a challenge and not a competition etc but we all like to vote. And if ours is not a runner was our favourite. I hope this is made as good as it can be. Truly anonymous voting is by far the best route. Can we also agree not to vote for our own, whatever - maybe that's not one that could be enforced but at least it's stated....and maybe someone will be watching?

just thoughts

all the best folks and look forward to seeing what was thrown up over the weekend.

Sorry, Bill. I gotta disagree with you on one of these.

Quoted from Reef Dreamer 1] As jeff has requested before, if they could all be released at a at similar time i think it provides for a much more balanced set of reviews.

I don't think this is the case really, and if anything, it's worse for the challenge. Honestly, just looking back at previous OWCs, the better written a script is, the more reads it has. Indeed scripts posted earlier might get a few more reads, but eventually, it's all evened out as the better writers are separated from the not-so-good writers. If all scripts are released at once, members will be able to conclude quickly which entries are good and which ones aren't, and I'm 95% sure these will be the entries which will get the most reads. Just my opinion.

I'd like like to add another point. I think we should also have a "Guess who wrote what" thread later on into the challenge like we had in earlier OWCs. It's been very hazy for the past few OWCs and I think it would be a lot of fun.

It's done. I'm gonna revise it tomorrow, but the hard part's over. Earliest I've ever finished an OWC entry, too.

Honestly I don't know how well it's gonna go over around here, but it should be interesting.

Quoted from nawazm11 Sorry, Bill. I gotta disagree with you on one of these. I don't think this is the case really, and if anything, it's worse for the challenge. Honestly, just looking back at previous OWCs, the better written a script is, the more reads it has. Indeed scripts posted earlier might get a few more reads, but eventually, it's all evened out as the better writers are separated from the not-so-good writers. If all scripts are released at once, members will be able to conclude quickly which entries are good and which ones aren't, and I'm 95% sure these will be the entries which will get the most reads. Just my opinion. I'd like like to add another point. I think we should also have a "Guess who wrote what" thread later on into the challenge like we had in earlier OWCs. It's been very hazy for the past few OWCs and I think it would be a lot of fun.

I suppose it does even out, it's just the one time they did a mass release there was a good buzz about it and it seemed fair.  Sometime when the last wave is released on Monday/Tuesday it can feel a bit after the event, but i take the point.

The voting and reveal has drifted in the past couple and ideally it would be nice to see this managed.

Guess the reader is a good one and always a favourite challenge. My Brit terms tend to stand out and are quickly spotted!

Final point. Each one of these tends to throw up a phrase or description that is found in many entries. The 'over grown weeds' being one from the gothic horror.

I wonder what this will throw up.

^^  Damn. So much for foreshadowing my death by strimmer ending...  

Bill and Mo - I agree with you both, actually.  I totally agree with what you said Bill and have said it myself numerous times, but after thinking about it (before Mo posted), I came up with the same thing Mo said - the better scripts will be read and the poorer written scripts will not, which may be "fair" or "make sense", but for us, not really the way we want things to turn out.

So, my suggestion is a staggered release, but I'd like to see all scripts released within 24 hours of the first release.

We're down to about 13 hours and I'm really looking forward to all the entries.  I will not be entering a script after all.  Got into a little disagreement with my galpal, and it completely put me in an incredibly shitty mood, to the point where I didn't want to and literally couldn't write.

No big deal as it's not really fair writing based on your own parameters anyway.  Maybe I'll finish it later and post as a short.

Anyways, great job everyone!  Keep at it and polish those babies up!

OK 12 hours to go.. time to start thinking about a script

Mark